I was tidying up my work area and was not surprised to see quite a bit of waste. This feels about average for one of my projects.

While I try to think ahead when I create my designs, the truth of the matter is I tend to end up working pretty iteratively. I seems that the great ideas for next steps often don't come to me until I have a physical manifestation of the current step. Fortunately filament is fairly inexpensive, I just wish there was a better way to recycle my PLA cast-offs.